Price until his actions became a public relations embarrassment,” said The New York Times. “Some current and former employees are suggesting that the scarcity of women at the upper echelons of Amazon could have made the company more lenient toward Mr. New questions are being raised internally about how the company justifies having so few women in top leadership programs. Amazonians including our most senior executives are focused on continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive company.Īmazon is also dealing with a sexual harassment scandal involving its former studio head Roy Price. Our employees are committed to our leadership principles, which include seeking diverse perspectives and working to disconfirm their own beliefs.
And we want to ensure our work environment is inclusive, so we are looking for more ways to surface and listen to diverse perspectives. Tens of thousands of reports had been received as of 12:02 p.m., showing problems throughout North America, Europe and Asia. We are focused on retaining and developing diverse talent internally through training and leadership opportunities.
We are seeking to recruit more diverse leaders across the company from our entry level roles to our most senior positions. Instead, the company released a generic statement from diversity director Latasha Gillespie:Īt Amazon we are working to diversify our company from several different angles. The only woman in the group is Beth Galetti, Amazon’s Senior Vice president of Human Resources.īezos declined a request for an interview about the company’s diversity.
It seems that Bezos’ chiefs are almost exclusively white men, and besides HR boss Beth Galetti, there are zero females or people of color in powerful positions at the company.Īmazon’s exclusive tier of 15 senior vice presidents includes Jeff Blackburn, the company’s entertainment head, and David Limp, who supervises the division responsible for projects like the Echo and Alexa. He is considered the best in the business for everything from e-commerce and cloud computing to hardware devices, and even grocery stores.Įvery company should respect diversity and welcome it into their culture, but this is not the case in Amazon. Amazon is a the top retail company, and CEO Jeff Bezos is everywhere.
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